Tag: Alternate history
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12 Books to Diversify Your Reading
Sometimes we can get in a reading rut and find it difficult to break out of our comfort zones. But it’s a good idea to shake things up every now and then and read an author or a genre we normally wouldn’t consider, if only for the benefit of expanding our view of the world.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016) I highly enjoyed and appreciated this gripping book on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, discovers a portal to the past and sets out to change history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stephen King’s novel, 11/22/63, is not what you might expect from the master…
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Recommended Reading: Underground Airlines
I highly enjoyed and appreciated Ben H. Winters’s gripping new novel, Underground Airlines, on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise that essentially made slavery constitutional into perpetuity. In the present day, slavery continues to be legal in…
Shannon Turlington 